Daily Network News

More News →

Machinery

Crops, Machinery

Pearce: Salford planting seeds for expansion

By
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a sector dominated by U.S. name brands in farm equipment, and an increasing number of European players coming to the market, Salford Tillage and Seeding Systems is practically in a class by itself. Easily one of the most successful Canadian farm equipment manufacturers, the company recently cut the ribbon on its latest plant expansion, […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Pearce: Fendt aims for broad definition of ‘efficiency’

By
Reading Time: 2 minutes A two-day demonstration event brought roughly 300 producers to a farm near here to see the latest line of tractors from German manufacturer Fendt. The Ontario events are the second in a series of field demonstrations being organized across various parts of the continent. Admittedly, organizers with Fendt have chosen specific sites for their concentrations […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Versatile enters North American combine market

Reading Time: 2 minutes A well-known Canadian name in Prairie farm machinery has become the first new brand of agricultural combine on this continent in 14 years. Versatile, a division of Winnipeg’s Buhler Industries best known for its farm tractors, launched its RT490 rotary combine Wednesday at Canada’s Farm Progress Show in Regina. The combines, made in Russia by […] Read more
Crops, General, Machinery

Cross-country combine “Prairie Belle” retired

Reading Time: 2 minutes After travelling 4,000 kilometres across Canada, and four years helping harvest crops and raise funds at the Big Quill Canadian Foodgrains Bank Community Growing Project, the Prairie Belle has been retired.  The 1980 Massey Ferguson 860 combine became well known in 2000, when owner Nick Parsons drove it from his farm in Dawson Creek, B.C. […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Deere dealer chain to build new at Calgary

Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s biggest group of John Deere ag equipment dealerships plans to build rather than buy for its next outlet. Cervus Equipment Corp. announced last Thursday that it’s bought 21.6 acres of land just north of Calgary’s city limits for $8.52 million. The land was bought from an "arm’s length party," Cervus said, with the plan […] Read more
A backhoe digs manure out from around a 2009 Steiger 485. Photo courtesy Fisher Branch RCMP.
Livestock, Machinery

Man. manure pile heated up by hot tractor

Reading Time: 2 minutes A couple from Manitoba’s Interlake will face charges later this summer after a Steiger tractor, stolen over 17 months ago, was found under a massive manure pile. The 2009 Case IH Steiger 485, valued at about $300,000, had been reported missing from a business in the RM of Rosser, just northwest of Winnipeg, on Dec. […] Read more
Crops, Machinery

Prairie equipment dealer chain expands Alta. reach

Reading Time: < 1 minute An east-central Alberta farm equipment dealer is poised to become the latest member of the Rocky Mountain Dealerships group. The Calgary company said Monday it’s signed a deal to buy all shares of Camrose Farm Equipment, which sells Case IH, New Holland, MacDon, Seed Hawk, Renn, RiteWay and other brands at its two dealerships in […] Read more
Livestock, Machinery

New dairy expo built to be national industry showcase

By
Reading Time: 3 minutes The stage is set and a new large-scale dairy tradeshow is scheduled for Ontario in February 2013, with an eye on attracting a national following. The inaugural Canadian Dairy XPO (CDX), scheduled to take place in Stratford Feb. 6-7, is billed as a first-time event for Canada, where the width and breadth of the dairy […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Back-to-work bill’s assent restarts CP Friday

Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian Pacific Railway will be online Friday following quick passage of a back-to-work law Thursday through Canada’s Senate and governor general’s office. The Senate, during a five-hour meeting Thursday afternoon, fast-tracked the Conservative government’s Bill C-39 through second reading, committee stage and third reading. The Conservatives’ Senate majority allowed the bill to pass third reading […] Read more
Crops, Machinery, Markets

Back-to-work law introduced to end CP strike

Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian Pacific Railway’s striking engineers, conductors, yardmen and trainspersons can expect to be ordered back to work later this week. Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt on Monday introduced Bill C-39, which would require an end to the CP strike and the appointment of an arbitrator 12 hours after the law receives royal assent, expected before […] Read more

Latest Market News

More Market News →
View more on AgDealer